Albert Einstein

It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.

Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Experts are just trained dogs.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement of international disputes, and that rulers can achieve this great end only if they are sure of the vigorous support of the majority of their peoples.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it.